- Evaluates its significance, which has long been overshadowed by the seemingly inevitable rise of print media
- Builds on recent research that critiqued assumptions about the superiority of print
- Seeks to explore the relationship between manuscript news and politics in Britain from c. 1660-1760 in more detail and on a broad scale
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(Robin Eagles and Michael Schaich) Preface
(Robin Eagles and Michael Schaich) Introduction
(Jason Peacey) ‘A Knowing but a Discrete Man’: Scribal News and Information Management in Restoration England
(Edward Taylor) ‘Our Masters the Commons Begin Now to Roar’: Parliament in Scribal Verse, 1621-81
(Brendan Dooley and Davide Boerio) Hot News: The Florence Resident Reports on the Great Fire of London
(Michael Schaich) (Extra)ordinary News: Foreign Reporting on English Politics under William III
(Charles Littleton) Diplomatic Residents in England and Approaches to Reporting Parliament in the First Years of George I
(Rachael Scarborough King) ‘Sir Madam’:Female Consumers of Parliamentary News in Manuscript Newsletters
(Alasdair Raffe) Wodrow’s News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th-Century Scotland
(Leith Davis) Inscripting Rebellion: The Newdigate Manuscript Newsletters, Printed Newspapers and the Cultural Memory of the 1715 Rising
(Robin Eagles) Reporting Trials and Impeachments in the Reign of George I: The Evidence of the Wigtown and Wye Newsletters
(Ugo Bruschi) The Formidable Machine: Parliament as Seen by Italian Diplomats at the Court of St James’s in the First Half of the 18th Century
(Markman Ellis) Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch: Scribal News in the Mid 18th Century
(Kate Loveman) Afterword
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